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overproliferates

overproliferates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overproliferate.

Meaning of overproliferate

Verb

overproliferate (third-person singular simple present overproliferates, present participle overproliferating, simple past and past participle overproliferated)

  1. To proliferate excessively.
    • The Ras and Notch-driven epithelial tumors develop in the eye-antennal imaginal disc which is not thought to contain epithelial stem cells, however, the eye disc does contain progenitor cells that can also overproliferate in response to excessive STAT activity.2015 July 25, “BTB-Zinc Finger Oncogenes Are Required for Ras and Notch-Driven Tumorigenesis in Drosophila”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Questions about overproliferates

What is overproliferates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Overproliferates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overproliferate.

Words near overproliferates in the dictionary

  1. overprograms
  2. overprojection
  3. overprojections
  4. overproliferate
  5. overproliferated
  6. overproliferates
  7. overproliferating
  8. overproliferation
  9. overproliferative
  10. overprolific
  11. overprolix

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